Why data centres are powering up investor interest

UNEP releases guidelines to curb the environmental impact of data centres

As the environmental impact of data centres and servers explodes, driven by economic growth and rapid advancements such as AI, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) today released new procurement guidelines to help governments and other authorities reduce the energy and water consumption of such centres.  The Sustainable Procurement Guidelines for Data Centres and Servers, from UNEP’s United for Efficiency (U4E) initiative, focus on k…

Why data centres are powering up investor interest

Image: 123RF In this week’s Power Playbook: Data centre power consumption is often viewed as the ‘problem child’ of the energy transition; for investors, however, it may be giving more reasons to spend their money. By now, we all know how much power the data centre industry demands. It’s so much that just two weeks